Public Works Department respects and protects the privacy of the individuals that access the information and use the services brought through them. Individually identifiable information about you is not willfully disclosed to any third party without first receiving your permission, as covered in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy describes Public Works Department’s treatment of personally identifiable information that Public Works Department collects when you are on the Public Works Department’s website. Public Works Department does not collect any unique information about you (such as your name,email address, age, gender etc.) except when you specifically and knowingly provide such information on www.mahapwd.com. Like any business interested in offering the highest quality of service to clients, Public Works Department may, from time to time, send you email and other communication to tell you about the various services, features, functionality and content offered by the Public Works Department website or seek voluntary information from you.

Please be aware, however, that we will release specific personal information about you if required to do so in order to (a) comply with any valid legal process such as a search warrant, statute, or court order, or (b) if we find that your actions on our website violate the Terms of Service or any of our guidelines for specific services, or (c) to protect or defend our legal rights or property, the Public Works Department site, or our users; or (d) investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the security, integrity of the Public Works Department website/offerings.

Your consent and changes to the Privacy Policy By using the website, www.mahapwd.com, you consent to the collection and use of your information as we have outlined in this policy and to our Terms of Service. Public Works Department may decide to change, modify or amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. You are responsible for revisiting this page to review our Privacy Policy updates.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Limitation of Liability

1. PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT has made this service available to you as a matter of convenience. PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT expressly disclaims any claim or liability arising out of the provision of this service. You agree and acknowledge that you shall be solely responsible for your conduct and that PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT reserves the right to terminate your rights to use the service immediately.

2. In no way shall PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, data or other intangible losses arising out of or in connection with the access to, use of, services.

3. PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT assumes no liability whatsoever for any monetary or other damage suffered by you on account of (i) the delay, failure, interruption, or corruption of any data or other information transmitted in connection with use of this website.

4. You shall indemnify and hold harmless PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT and their respective officers and employees, from any claim or demand, or actions. We / our Employees are not liable for any loss or damages arising from your use of, or reliance upon the information contained on our website, or any failure to comply with the terms and conditions where such failure is due to circumstance beyond our reasonable control. If we waive any rights available to us under terms and conditions on an occasion, this does not mean that those rights will automatically be waived on any other or subsequent occasion. If any part of terms and conditions are held to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal for any reason, the remaining terms and conditions shall nevertheless continue in full force.

5. To register with this website or to use certain services and tools, you may have to create your User ID and Password. Your User ID and Password are very important pieces of information and it is your responsibility to keep them secured. You agree to ;

• Choose a new password, whenever you required to do so.
• Keep your User ID & Password confidential.
• Be responsible for any transactions made by Users, you have authorized to use your User ID and Password.

We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Public Works Department will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of your Registration account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet café

Personal Information

• 1. To the extent required or permitted by law, we may also collect, use and disclose personal information in connection with security related or law enforcement investigations or in the course of cooperating with authorities or complying with legal requirements.
• 2. If you e-mail us, you are voluntarily releasing information to us. Your e-mail address will be used by PWD to respond to you.
• 3. In addition, we may have collected similar information from you in the past. By entering this website you are consenting to the terms of our information privacy policy and to our continued use of previously collected information. By submitting your personal information to us, you will be treated as having given your permission for the processing of your personal data as set out in this policy.
• 4. Your information will be managed in accordance with the law, including Data Protection Act, 1998.

Email, mailing lists, and other services When you request information or services, we use your email address and any other information you give us to provide you with the information or services you’ve requested, including sending transaction confirmations, acknowledgements and alerts. Mail confirming your transactions or any changes to your account information, will be sent as per Public Works Department’s prevailing operating policy and with a view to enhance the security of the service offering.

In respect of other information or services sent to your email address, we will continue to provide these until you ask us to stop (by using the “unsubscribe” instructions provided on each email and/or the Web site where you signed up and/or as we otherwise provide), or until the information or service is no longer available. We will not use your email address or other information to provide you with any unsolicited message or information (unless the message or information is part of the service you are requesting).

Non personal information

At this web site, information sent by your web browser, may be automatically collected. This information typically includes your domain name (the site after the [at] in your e-mail address). It may also contain your user name (the name before the [at] in your e-mail address). Other examples of information collected by our server include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect the visitor's computer to the Internet, operating system and platform, the average time spent on our website, pages viewed, information searched for, access times, websites visited before and a visitor visits our website, and other relevant statistics.

PWD Disclaimer

This website is provided to you on an "as is" and "where-is" basis, without any warranty. PWD, for itself and any third party providing materials, services, or content to this website, makes no representations or warranties, either express, implied, statutory or otherwise of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of third party rights, with respect to the website, the information or any products or services to which the information refers. PWD will not be liable to you or any third party for any damages of any kind, including but not limited to, direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages, arising from or connected with the site, including but not limited to, your use of this site or your inability to use the site, even if PWD has previously been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Availability

1. PWD controls and operates this web site from India and makes no representation that the materials are appropriate or will be available for use in other locations. If you use this web site from outside the India, you are entirely responsible for compliance with all applicable local laws.

Third Party Interaction and Links to Third Party Sites Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

We are not responsible for the content of any linked website and cannot take responsibility for the consequences of your using the information or services on linked websites. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time. Our website does not endorse or favour any specific commercial product or business. Non-government sites linked to from this website are present only because they may be useful additions to the information we provide. A link to a third-party website does not imply endorsement; you must use your own judgement to decide whether the information or service on that website is suitable for your needs. If a website is not linked to ours, this does not mean or imply that it is unsatisfactory. The linked websites are regularly reviewed in the light of customer usage and feedback. Websites that we link to may have terms and conditions that are different from ours. Do not assume that our terms and conditions apply to other websites.

Copyrights

This web site contains material, including text, images, graphics, video and sound, which is protected by copyright and/or other intellectual property rights. All copyright and other intellectual property rights in this material are either owned by PWD or have been licensed to PWD by the owner(s) of those rights so that it can use this material as part of this web site. PWD retains copyright on all Information, including text, graphics and sound and all trademarks displayed on this web site are owned by PWD and used under license by PWD affiliates.

Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

These terms and conditions are governed by and to be interpreted in accordance with laws of India, without regard to the choice or conflicts of law provisions of any jurisdiction. You agree, in the event of any dispute arising in relation to these terms and conditions or any dispute arising in relation to the web site whether in contract or tort or otherwise, to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts located at Nagpur, India for the resolution of all such disputes.

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. PWD does not routinely monitor your postings to the web site but reserves the right to do so. However, in our efforts to promote good citizenship within the Internet community, if PWD becomes aware of inappropriate use of the web site or any of its Services, PWD will respond in any way that, in its sole discretion, PWD deems appropriate. You acknowledge that PWD will have the right to report to law enforcement authorities any actions that may be considered illegal, as well as any information it receives of such illegal conduct. When requested, PWD will co-operate fully with law enforcement agencies in any investigation of alleged illegal activity on the Internet.

2. You agree to use this site for lawful purposes only. You must not use this site for any of the following :

• To send, state, publish, use or reuse any material which is offensive, abusive, defamatory, indecent, obscene, threatening or illegal or in breach of copyright, trade mark, confidence, privacy or any other rights.
• To transmit any chain letters, spam letters, or junk e-mail or participate in mischievous or malicious behaviour which causes or may cause damage, annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to this website or any other party.
• You may not circumvent or attempt to circumvent security measures or try to modify the site content.

3. We will do our best to ensure that content on this site is accurate and up to date and to address any errors or omissions as soon as they are identified, however;

• PWD cannot guarantee that the content is always accurate and up to date or that it applies to the individual circumstances of your business.
• Content of this site is not intended to be used as a substitute for legal or professional advice.
• You should seek any appropriate professional advice relevant to your particular circumstance.

4. PWD reserves the right to terminate access to this web site at any time and without notice. Further this limited license terminates automatically, without notice to you, if you breach any of these Terms. Upon termination, you must immediately destroy any downloaded and printed materials.

5. PWD reserve the right to exclude a particular user from a service, and/or delete their details if the abuse it (which could include, but is not limited to, hacking, submission of obscenities, fraud or the spreading of computer viruses). We may also make changes to a service without warning ; this may include the removal of a service at any time.

6. PWD may change the terms and conditions and disclaimer set out above from time to time. By browsing this web site, you are accepting that you are bound by the current terms and conditions and disclaimer and so you should check these each time you revisit the web site.

7. PWD may change the format and content of this web site at any time.

8. PWD may suspend the operation of this web site for support or maintenance work, in order to update the content or for any other reason.

9. Personal details provided to PWD through this web site will only be used in accordance with our privacy policy. Please read this carefully before going on.By providing your personal details to us you are consenting to its use in accordance with our privacy policy.

10. Security and Virus Protection: No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. While we strive to protect such information, we do not warrant and cannot ensure the security of any information which you transmit to us. Accordingly, such transmission is at your own risk. We will not be liable for any damages or loss arising out of or resulting from any unauthorized access to, alternation to or modification of information contained on this website. We make every effort to check and test our website during production. You must take your own precautions to ensure that the process which you employ for accessing this website does not expose you to risk of viruses, malicious computer code or other forms of interference which may damage your computer system. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on anything you download from the Internet. We accept no liability for any loss, disruption or damage to your computer system or your data caused by using this website or arising as a result of having used the website.